Daniel Meltz has a broad-based commercial practice covering a variety of different specialist areas. He acts regularly for corporate clients in all sectors across a broad range of courts and tribunals. He also acts for governments and government-related organizations in litigation and international arbitration.
He has been appointed Counsel Assisting on various Commissions of Inquiry. A graduate of the University of Sydney, Mr Meltz commenced his career as a litigator at a major Australian firm before taking an appointment to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts
in Switzerland where he assisted with the arbitration of claims on World War II bank accounts. He subsequently worked in London in the International Commercial Arbitration section of a leading English firm. Mr Meltz holds an appointment with the Asian Development Bank as an Expert International Arbitration Consultant and has advised numerous South Pacific States on accession to the New York Convention, legislative reform and has assisted with capacity building of the judiciary, government and lawyers and business. He is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and sits on the NSW Advisory Committee of ACICA.